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Guy was named “Malice Green”, which sounds like his parents were predicting a criminal career…Green was a resident of Detroit.

Anyway, this was a few months after Rodney King became well-known. Green died in custody (under care in a hospital) after a struggle during the arrest. The struggle included multiple strikes on the head with a hard object (nightstick or MagLite-style flashlight).

Most damningly for the media-circus, Green had dark skin and the officers had light skin.

At various trials related to the case, different doctors gave different opinions about the cause of Mr. Green’s death. One stated it was the blunt-force trauma to the head; another stated that it might have been related to drugs and incipient heart conditions.

The trial was very public and media-driven; the Mayor had publicly stated his belief in the officers’ guilt before the Police finished their internal investigation. There were suspicions that jurors were influenced by the potential for riots. There were also allegations that inside-the-coroners-office politics caused the examining physician to alter his report…

Such things are newsworthy, hopefully because they are rare.

But I wonder how often the medical examiner feels a pressure to support one side or the other in a death-in-custody case.

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